Waking Nightmare

HAZEL

My lungs seize. I can't breathe. The edges of the room start to grey out.

"Baby." My voice barely scrapes out, thin and cracked. "Wake up."

His face changes. Fear floods every line of it. His mouth opens on a sound that isn't quite human.

"No," he rasps, the word raw and shredded.

I freeze.

He looks past me. Through me. At something only he can see, something that makes his whole bod